Tuesday 7 October 2014
SCREENING: Re-Veil-Le and War & Peace: The Film
DIR: DOMINIC DE VERE
TALK “Living One’s Practice: Performing One’s work”
JOANNA JONES / VISUAL ARTIST
The Shoe Factory, Nicosia / 7:30pm
Free Admission
Screening: WAR & PEACE: THE FILM
Director: Dominic de Vere
Duration: 30’
Dover Arts Development (DAD) commissioned Dominic de Vere to make a “project
film” from the many strands of their 18 month War & Peace programme, asking
him to make a piece of work that was both documentation and a work in its
own right. The resulting 30-minute film is an intelligent response to the
brief as well as a fascinating new piece of work by the artist/film-maker on
the theme: “The Earth, like the body of an animal, is wasted at the same
time as it is repaired. It has a state of growth and augmentation; it has
another state, which is that of diminution and decay. This world is thus
destroyed in one part, but is renewed in another. From the top of the
mountain to the shore of the sea, which are the two extremities of our land,
every thing is in a state of change; the rock and solid strath dissolving,
breaking and decomposing, for the purpose of becoming soil. The soil
travelling along the surface of the earth, in its way to the shore; and the
shore wearing and wasting by the agitation of the sea, an agitation which is
essential to the purposes of a living world. “ James Hutton
Screening: RE-VEIL-LE
Director: Dominic de Vere
Painter: Joanna Jones
Music: Mihailo Trandafilovski's “Diptych”
Violin Concerto No 2
Duration: 19’
In RE-VEIL-LE, the journey of Joanna Jones’ new painting is veiled and
revealed in a 19 minute film in symbiosis with Mihailo Trandafilovski's
“Diptych” Violin Concerto No. 2. “I decided to make a painting for Dover
that would, at the same time, be a metaphor for history and change. Out of a
series of photographs – documenting a painting evolving over 42 painting
sessions – I made a film", said Joanna Jones. The paintings’ development
compositionally parallels the composition of Mihailo Trandafilovski's
“Diptych” Violin Concerto, both art forms working synergically with each
other. There is no finished painting as the final painted canvas was cut
into 324 pieces, a piece of which was given to each audience member with the
programme at the work’s premiere at the War & Peace Grand Finale Concert on
October 11th 2013 at Dover Town Hall. It was performed by Longbow under the
direction of Peter Sheppard Skaerved.
Talk by Joanna Jones: LIVING ONE'S PRACTICE: PERFORMING ONE’S WORK
For an artist, to live one’s practice, to live in a way that perfectly
brings together art and life, is to pursue an Utopian project and at the
same time constantly question whether and how this can be achieved. This
talk aims to show how such a project might be envisaged through the
experience of grass-roots cultural activism combined with a more strategic
approach to influencing cultural policy and embedding the arts in a town
with little experience and considerable scepticism of contemporary art
practice, particularly publicly-funded arts projects. The Talk will last
approximately 40 minutes and will be given in English.
Joanna Jones lives and works in Dover. After studying painting at The Byam
Shaw School and the Royal Academy Schools she spent over twenty years in
Germany developing her practice and exhibiting internationally. She returned
to the UK in 1997 and, in 2001, was the recipient of an Arts Council Year of
the Artist award for a light projection on the cliffs at Samphire Hoe in
Kent. Over several decades, Jones’ work has evolved as part of an intense
emotional and intellectual process of self discovery and unveiling. Her work
encompasses performance and painting. In 2006, she extended her practice in
the public realm founding and developing (DAD) Dover Arts Development with
artist Clare Smith.